Symbols of the Capital: Or, Civilization in New YorkThatcher & Hutchinson, 1859 - 368 pages |
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Page 127 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 364 - How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine affections bold Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shall thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say, My spirit is at peace with all. They haunt the silence of the breast, Imaginations calm and fair, The memory like a cloudless air, The conscience as a sea at rest...
Page 112 - ... seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, all these things shall be added unto us.
Page 3 - ... Confederacy so fully represents, in all its wondrous phases, the new civilization of the Western World as does the Empire State, possessed, as it is, of a commerce that searches the ends of the earth, and superior, as it is, to all others in population, wealth, and executive power, has been chosen by him as the best mirror in which we can behold the reflection of our present progress, and the obstacles that hinder our more rapid advancement.
Page 365 - With what divine affections bold, Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say, My spirit is at peace with all. They haunt the silence of the breast, Imaginations calm and fair, The memory like a cloudless air, The conscience as a sea at rest. But when the heart is full of din, And doubt beside the portal waits, They can but listen at the gates, XCIV.
Page 348 - When they came to the (jurying place, they made a speech to the dead in the following terms : " Blessed be God, who has formed thee, fed thee, maintained thee, and taken away thy life. О dead ! he knows your numbers, and shall one day restore your life,
Page 278 - ... wives and Republican mothers. This fearful push for the material prizes of our national life, explains the imperfect education of American young women. Mothers and daughters vie in the cultivation of those temporary graces and accomplishments which are supposed to bring young men to a crisis in the affections, while the solid qualities which can alone retain the love of a rational man, or fit a woman for genuine success, are postponed till life is upon them. It also accounts for the ridiculous...
Page 51 - ... cog in a social machinery that works like a fate, and cheats him of his true culture as a soul. The most unnatural fashions and habits, the strangest eccentricities...
Page 103 - Seeking first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, all these things are added unto him." All inventions, save 'drudgery, relieve man from the slavery to material things, and give him leisure to cultivate his higher nature. Thus, modern machinery will finally abolish slavery and ignorant labor. To manage a first-class kitchen is beyond the power of Kathleen or Minna, fresh from the other side ; they must become educated women, or first class employment is closed against them.
Page 55 - to order"; they are and will be the huge receptacles for all varieties of humanity, and represent the worst as surely as the best in our American character. All the teacher of Christianity can do is to take men and women in towns as he finds them, and, spite of disheartening influences, keep on forever warning, instructing and inspiring...